Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Cradlepoint Cloud Security now available for the AER2100 and ARC MBR1400

Over the last year a lot of applications have moved to the cloud for
hosted service that doesn’t require additional equipment on your end.
With a Cradlepoint Extended Enterprise License agreement you can now
take advantage of ZScaler cloud based firewall services. After you
establish an account with ZScaler you can login with a unique
username/password combo through the router that will give you several
cloud based service options. Below is a breakdown of some of the
features that ZScaler can provide for your AER2100 or ARC MBR1400
Cradlepoint router.

Cloud Security Features:

Real Time Reporting - Based on your cloud configuration you can get
specific reports about data consumption and user traffic across your
network.

Behavioral Analysis - Figure out specific patterns across your
network. These could include sites employees like to browse and how long
they spend on them.

URL Filtering - This option is pretty straight forward allowing you
to block specific domains on your network. For example you could take
YouTube.com and add a rule so anyone that tries to visit the site is
simply unable to load the page.

Advanced Threat Protection - This service is designed to protect
against botnets, malicious activity content, phishing, cross site
scripting (XSS) attacks to help guarantee a safe browsing experience.

Data Loss Prevention - Full inspection of outgoing data such as
sales data, pricing information and intellectual property like source
code that you don’t want outside of your office locations. Regulatory
compliance by state or federal governments such as HIPAA, GLBA, PCI or
SOX will also protect personal or private consumer info.

Bandwidth Management - Instead of relying directly on the QoS
(Quality of service) provided by your router you can use ZScaler service
to manage business critical applications and usage per data source.

There are routers in the market that will do some of the things ZScaler
does like bandwidth monitoring, URL filtering and QoS controls. When
using ZScaler you’re getting a simplified process that can be
universally applied to different corporate or branch offices using
Cradlepoint equipment without creating different configurations on
different routers in the field. This allows your IT staff to create a
unified secure network complete to know exactly what traffic is moving
across your network, what shouldn’t be, and a way to stop unwanted
traffic from disrupting your day to day operations.